Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . nfidel might havewritten it. From Earths dark Centre unto Saturns GateIve solved all Problems of this Worlds Estate,From every Snare of Plot and Guile set free,Each Bond resolved — saving alone Deaths Fate. 1 Chaucer, Pardoners Tale, 889- From the abysm of the dark earth to891. the height of Saturn, 2 See Browne, Literary History of I have made all mysteries of the worldPersia, p. 381. resolved ; To show I am not over-influenced I have leaped free from the fetters ofby FitzGerald (quatr

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Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . nfidel might havewritten it. From Earths dark Centre unto Saturns GateIve solved all Problems of this Worlds Estate,From every Snare of Plot and Guile set free,Each Bond resolved — saving alone Deaths Fate. 1 Chaucer, Pardoners Tale, 889- From the abysm of the dark earth to891. the height of Saturn, 2 See Browne, Literary History of I have made all mysteries of the worldPersia, p. 381. resolved ; To show I am not over-influenced I have leaped free from the fetters ofby FitzGerald (quatrain 31) I append all machinations and guile ; the Persian text of the quatrain and Every bond has been resolved, excepttranslate it literally : — the bond of Death. az kar-i gil-i siah td auj-i zuhal Instead of gil there is a reading gul, kardam hamah mushkildt-i glti rd hal from the root of the dark rose, and blriin jastam zi-kaid-i har makr u hil ^dlam, world, as a synonym for giti har band kushddah shied magar band-i in the second line. The text of this ajal quatrain is given by Eth6, Nachrichten. Tomb of Ayicenna (Iex Sixa)

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